Dr. Bart Harmon is chief medical officer for Harris Healthcare Solutions and former chief medical information officer for the Military Health System of the U.S. Department of Defense.

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John Halamka, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, praised the new alliance, saying that it could work synergistically with efforts in Massachusetts to make computerized health record systems work well together and that it could result in new uses for those computerized records.

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